Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.
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Unless you're a far leftist, in which case you believe things practically as absurd as that, without questioning the insanity in the slightest. Again, part of the big problem with the ideology; they actively refuse to see the world as it is, instead focusing on fictional utopianism.
I think we overestimate the role of ideology and underestimate that of conformity. The average far-leftist doesn't believe what he does because of some coherent (or even incoherent) ideology, but because he simply believes what he's told to believe, what all his friends believe, what the media tells him, what his teachers told him.
It might also be more pleasant to believe that. The CIA are the good guys, America is doing good around the world, you have the truth imparted to you by the media, and the only problem is that there are these Trumpians who refuse these obvious solutions.
Belief in solutions rather than trade-offs, described in detail by Thomas Sowell, is a main problem here - and not just with the left. Almost everything is a trade-off. Everything that you believe 'will make the world better' will also make it worse in some other area, just almost never to the same extent.